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If you want to be quirky and different—or you’re just a wiener lover—these $13 headphones make it look like you’ve got a really long wiener running through your head. [Product Page via NerdApproved]
Steve Ballmer talks about how fast his brain works and how he needs to do a better job of showing that he’s hearing you. Audio clip courtesy NYT.
Joel@BoingBoing has put together a gallery of robots and humans cooperating to extinguish opposing force—human, cyborg or otherwise. This photo shows the towing capacity of a packbot QinetiQ TALON Robot, apparently capable of towing meatbags back to the hive to feed its young. [Army.mil Flickr via BBG]
How nerdy are you? Oh really? Yea rly? Corsair’s Cooling Ice Series T30 “world’s first” sub-ambient PC memory cooler gives you 20 degrees of breathing room for overclocking your memory to make your computer more fasterer. [Fareastgizmos via Ubergizmo]
What’s even worse is that she’s typing in Dvorak. [Girls With Flexibility (Slightly NSFW)]
The Storm Synth wristwatch conceals the current time by mixing in the real hands with six decoys (the time can be determined by locating the hands with pointed tips). Seriously, can’t we have watches that just tell us the time anymore? Indeed, there is no shortage of watches out there that make it as difficult…
Here, Ballmer talks about being bubbly, his energy and what type of personality it takes to lead a large organization. Audio clip courtesy NYT. First image courtesy Boing Boing Gadgets. https://gizmodo.com/ballmer-the-evil-cylon-finally-revealed-5181072 Check back soon for part 2.
A storage density of 51MB per square centimeter? Whatever, standard DVDs. Australian scientists developed a new multilayer optical storage medium that can house data at 1.1TB/cm3. Unlike existing DVD technology, the key to this data storage technique is the fact that multiple pieces of data can be stored in exactly the same location—up to ten…
3D video technology is never ever going to take off until they put the cameras in the hands of normal people + Nothing says entertainment like three-dimensional boobs = I want this 3D camera. I love the looks and the functionality of this concept by Nikola Knezevic, a 3D camcorder that records straight to a…
Here’s an example of great priorities: a 16-year-old girl dove in front of a pickup truck to receive her dropped iPod. The girl was walking across the street on Tuesday when she dropped her iPod. She went back to grab it in moving traffic and was, unsurprisingly, hit by the approaching pickup truck. She suffered…
Why fight the machines when you can become the machines? As Oobject points out with their list of 16 cyborg technologies—bionic eyes, ears limbs and organs are already a reality. [Oobject]
I currently employ a Squeezebox Boom to gently wake me up with classical music—but I feel that the subtle wit of Stephen Fry might better prepare me for my day. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-logitechs-squeezebox-boom-all-in-one-5055240 This is the alarm clock that faithfully reproduces the subtle wit employed by P. G. Wodehouse’s most famous character—the valet Reginald Jeeves—as he politely…
The Dell Latitude 2100 may be great for school, but you’re gonna get punched in the face if you carry it like that. And you’re gonna have to buy another laptop. Wait, you go to private school? Carry on then. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/dell-latitude-2100-netbook-for-the-childrens-is-crayola-5260368
Hollywood execs love to say that 3D is the next big thing in movies, and Blu-ray is hoping to be the way that 3D movies come home from the theaters. The Blu-ray Disc Association is working to officially integrate 3D tech into the BD standard. They’re hoping that 3D, when combined with HD, will be…
Robots are officially on the battlefield—UAVs like the Predator and Reaper patrol the skies while militarized bomb-disposal robots like the Talon detonate explosives on the ground. But where are the humanoids? Roboticist and author Daniel H. Wilson makes the case for a humanoid robot army. A humanoid robot is a general-purpose robot that looks a…
Mac users are still exposed to a Java vulnerability that’s been public for 6 months after Apple neglected to patch it in the recent honking 10.5.7 update. Okay Windows guys, point and laugh. But if you want to be super safe, you should turn off Java in your browser, no matter what platform you’re on.…
When Chow Yun-Fat busted out two pistols in The Killer, suddenly no actor could be caught dead on screen with just one. We can only hope this Double Strap will do the same for SLRs. The RS DR-1 Double Strap is John Woo’s take on wedding photography, a means to shoot two lenses at once,…
Some of the best deals we’ve seen to date include a Dell Vostro desktop with a 23” Samsung 1080p monitor for under $400. Also, who wants some free food? Computing and Peripherals: • Dell Vostro 220s Desktop with 23” Samsung LCD Monitor for $399 (normally $739 – monitor automatically gets added to your cart). •…
Last month the corpse of Circuit City spoke from beyond the grave to say it may rise again. Thanks to buyout from Systemax Inc, that will come true within the next few days. https://gizmodo.com/circuit-city-may-rise-again-as-circuitcity-com-5202450 In a video embedded on the temporary splash page, the Systemax CEO claims that the new Circuit City will feature lower…
Humans are fragile. Our bodies are easily mutilated by our own creations: Crushed, mulched, zipped. But physical force is weak and inefficient compared to good old electrocution, which, according to MythBusters’ Adam Savage, doesn’t kill you the way you think it does. https://gizmodo.com/do-you-trust-elevators-maybe-you-shouldnt-5259613 If you learned about how electrocution kills you from cartoons or Ernest…